YES WE CAN Lyrics

I hop off the boat and pop out in a country that ain't even want us, we hustlers (damn)

Hustled Uncle Sam by being of color and keeping our culture and customs

Officers at customs cuss me, cause I guess they must want

Me in the ground, since they usually stop browns, but this time they missed one

I hop off the boat and I run with the need for a change in a young boy system

Hop off the boat and bring change to a messed up system like Princeton

I'm pissing on graves of founding fathers, if we ain't talking dollars, I diss one

Confederates telling me respect they flag, I burn it like "oh you mean this one?"

Hopped on the boat, I was hoping for better

Heard a lot about Liberty so I met her

And being here seems to upset a

Whole lotta white people, they applying pressure

Mom was applying for visas, put money on me

And Imma triple her investment

Triple double like I'm Westbrook

Passport on me and I know they don't respect it (I know they don't)

I pulled up to a whole new city, they richer than Richie

What I had in the bank's what they have in they piggy

But we came on the come up, got busy

And bought us a house in the hills with the hillbillies

Would've thought it was Mississippi, they resent me

They sent me some letters and said that we

Didn't deserve this money, tried denying entry

I get to the bag and the mountaintop (damn)

I was working at Denny's around the clock

Whitey gon see me succeed and he pout a lot

And if I have to ford a river, I will, I'll do that

I'll scale the hills and I'll prove that

I can be me in this country

And they say that we can't do that

But we be on that yes, yes we, yes, yes we can tho

I feel like Barack Obama in '08 cause I got my man's hope

Change gon come like Sam Cooke

Take a look what it took just to land bro

If Uncle Sam wanna tell me we can't

Then we bout to tell em it's hands bro cause

We be on that yes, yes we, yes, yes we can tho

I feel like Barack Obama in '08 cause I got my man's hope

Change gon come like Sam Cooke

Take a look what it took just to land bro

If Uncle Sam wanna tell me we can't

Then we bout to tell em it's hands bro

Then we bout to tell em it's

Crackers want me dead but I can't let that happen (no)

Tell them crackers that I can't let that happen

Them bigots want my head or want me to get to packing

Know these crackers want me dead but I can't let that, can't let that

These crackers from that town running they mouth like track athletes

They say I got kicked out, they said that I was selling crack? Please

The only whites I pushed was them supremacists, harassed me

And my people, didn't see us as equals, as a matter of fact these same

Crackers call themselves progressive but they never do nothing

They friends saying slurs, hateful words, but they ain't do nothing

They some sideline sitters, they stay neutral, pull up to functions

With some creeps and bigots, hypocrites act like they knew nothing

Dream Team only ones I trust, you ducking us cause you fake

Heard you talk a lot in them group chats but fold when face-to-face

I rep civil rights in every place, that's why I get this hate

Scott Adams live with you cause you all feel the same about race (damn)

We confronting bigots from the jump, they get jumped (jump em)

Ku Klux get scooped up, dump bodies in the trunk (dump em)

Rednecks talking crazy then we cutting out they tongue (cut em)

I wanna kill Sam cause that man is not my, man is not my unc (not my uncle)

That ain't have my back I when I came back, they got upset

I'm keeping bigots in check, they come in each color

I cannot take disrespect, I call em out I ain't calling collect

Pick up the phone and they calling in threats

Calling me names cause they cannot accept

Y'all just need to hop off my (uh)

Ooh, you better move (you better) we in a rush

Keeping it real is a must

If we on the way, then y'all just gon have to adjust

If you get in front, well then you getting snuffed

Pipe down, right now, you better hush

Cause me and the team was hopping off of that Lil Boat like

It's us

Fresh off the boat we straight tryna exist

Them bigots prolly won't like this

We know that you know who you are

Cause we know who you is

The Dream Team don't sneak diss

We got too many bigots (got what?)

Got too many wastes of space on my list

And they all linking up cause they cut from the same cloth

Them Ku Klux cliques getting clipped

I got crackers and brown boys and all they groupies

That's hating on me cause I ain't wanna get on they tip

They wanna ask me why I trip

Cause slurs always seem to slip out of your lips

You beat up a woman got suspension slipped

Slip up front of me and get slapped, I don't kid

I bet punching down is what make you feel big

You 18 years old, why you hang out with kids?

He not like us, he a predator, he use three letters that

Stand for I Prefer Sophomores

I tell this obvious pedophile he a pig and belong behind barn doors

Keep throwing functions and DMing freshman

Don't come to the house and get harmed boy

I'm calling he catching a case at Purdue

Now lemme move on to the blonde boys

Elijah, how you gon make death threats?

Boy you not the only one with a baseball bat

Colorado's real great for you, real safe for you

Y'all better fall back

Kurtis, I don't mean to be curt

But does U.C. Berkeley know about all of them slurs?

At first I was giving y'all grace

Then you spit in my face

Now I'm making sure all y'all hurt

[redacted] better keep it in park

Don't run into us if you out after dark

You racist cracker, I'll make your eye a little blacker

I'll be way more than a rapper I'm

I'm sick of these activist actors

That say we the people but what do y'all for the people?

You so far removed from the people

Y'all just some rich white folks telling rich white jokes Imma (mm)

Album dropped, bigots get dropped, boutta get hot like (mm)

All y'all crackers start coping, Dream Team season approaching (mm)

Middle fingers up to Uncle Sam, came saw and conquered the land (mm)

And they say "y'all can't do that" but we say "yes we-"